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flutteringphalanges · 11 months

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My Girl

Adam Warlock x Star Lord!Sister Reader

Prompt: You and Adam enjoy a quiet moment as parents with your baby. (Lots of fluff and some romance)

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A/N: Hello! Today I wanted to write something short and sweet so have some dad!Adam and mom!Reader. I just wanted to add real quick that you don’t need to have read any of my other one shots to know what is going on. They basically can be as read as stand alone. The daughter is named Aydith after Adam’s mom, Ayesha, and Peter Quill’s (and the reader’s) mom, Meredith. Hence the name haha! Here is the LINK to all the one shots in the series if you’d like to check them out! Requests are open! Thank you all so much! I hope you enjoy! Also I may do one for Father’s Day but I am not sure. It is started though. -Jen

My Girl

Out of context, telling someone that the man you loved had fallen head over heels for another girl would’ve surely sounded downright horrible. But that was far from the truth. In fact, you couldn’t be more over the moon about it. The moment your daughter had come into the world, the moment Adam’s eyes landed on his child, it was as if nothing else mattered. You both were his universe--you, the moon, and she, the sun. Adam had fallen in love again, but so had you.

“Why thank you, I shall treasure this dearly.”

You leaned against the door frame, your mouth curved into a small smile as you watched Adam cheerfully accept the wooden spoon your ten month old daughter, Aydith, held out to him in earnest. You were exactly sure where the two of them had managed to collect such an odd assortment of things, but you were happy they were enjoying themselves. Her nose crinkled up as she giggled, her chubby fist holding a twig towards him. Groot’s?

“It is very lovely. Finer than any branch on Sovereign. Perhaps we should display it in the house. Isn’t that right, Mama?” Adam looked over to you, motioning to the stick. “What say you? Is this not the most impressive piece of wood you’ve ever seen?”

“Positively stunning.” You chuckled, making your way over to their side. Aydith squealed as you leaned down to kiss Adam before turning your attention on her. “You have quite a collection here, sunshine. Must be that pinch of Ravanger in you.” You tickled her, the baby breaking out into a fit of giggles. “Where did this come from?”

“Oh, just here and there. Anything that really piqued our interest--or, rather, hers. She has quite the taste for things.” Adam explained, both of you watching Aydith as she retrieved a purple shell from her pile. Must’ve been something Phyla had given her. “Not too sure what we will do with all of it once we’re done.”

Your daughter waved the shell in the air, blowing tiny spit bubbles as she let it fall. Without hesitation, you watch as she began to float into the air. Even though you’d had weeks to get used to this new found power of hers, your heart still leaped out of your chest each time. Adam, however, didn’t even blink as he casually reached up and brought her back down, settling her in his lap. Aydith frowned.

“You know I’m not against Rocket making those gravity boots he offered to design for us for her.” Adam said, holding onto the little girl as she wiggled in his grasp. “I know it would bring you a lot of comfort knowing she was on the ground.”

“I know.” You sighed softly. “But I don’t want us to treat her powers like they are a burden or something.” Even though the thought had crossed your mind more than once. “I just…I just want her to be safe, that’s all.”

Both of you fell silent for a moment. Eventually, Aydith seemed to lose interest in trying to fly, earning her the right to freedom from her father’s lap. She crawled her way over to her pile, plopping down before it with a smile. You felt Adam’s hand rest on yours, and you interlock your fingers. Looking over at him, you noticed the way he gazed at you with his golden eyes. A stare you knew that one day would gross your daughter out because her parents had that ‘yucky lovey dovey’ look on your faces.

“What?” You felt the heat rising to your cheeks as you fought to keep a straight face.

“Just admiring your beauty.” Adam admitted, obviously amused with your reaction. “Have I ever told you how absolutely radiant you are, Y/N?”

Countless times. In every single language. Verbally and physically. Sometimes you wondered if that was all Adam could ever say. Just like a broken record. And by Gods would you be lying if you said you didn’t love it.

“I don’t know.” You feigned innocently, shrugging your shoulders. “My memory can be quite vague at times. I could use some reminding…”

Adam smirked before leaning over to kiss you. Heat began to pool in your stomach when his lips touched yours. It was so easy to get lost in the moment, savoring the intimacy you both craved. It was the blown up, plastic ball that hit your knee that caused you to break apart. Your daughter was staring at you both, her head slightly cocked to the side.

“Later.” You murmured, your grin sly. “When she goes down for her nap.”

“Is that a promise, Y/N?” Adam whispered, lust in his eyes.

“A guarantee.” You pressed your index finger to his lips. “It’ll be worth it.”

Aydith let out a shrill cry as if demanding that all attention be redirected at her. You chuckled softly, still holding onto Adam’s hand as you scooted closer to the baby. Adam’s love for you was Aydith. What had come of it all. Seeing her, watching her, your daughter’s existence screamed it. You smiled, feeling Adam’s fingers tighten as your child played before you. She was the sun.

#Adam Warlock #Adam Warlock x Reader #Reader x Adam Warlock #Adam Warlock Imagine #gotg vol 3 #Aydith Warlock

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fictionadventurer · 11 months

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The Shocking Redemption Arc of Chester Arthur

To my great pleasure, I get to tell you about Chester A. Arthur. If you don’t know his story, that’s a surprising statement, because most people don’t even recognize his name as one of the presidents. That’s a crying shame, because this guy has the most fascinating character arc of any president I’ve come across so far. He entered the presidency as a despicable, corrupt, conniving political lackey, and left it as--

Well, I’d best get on with the story.

Chester Arthur started out as an idealist. He was the son of an abolitionist Baptist minister, and though he dropped the religion in adulthood, he remained devoted to abolishing slavery. He became a lawyer with a New York firm that argued several civil rights case, and he rose to fame in 1854 when he served as the defense attorney for Elizabeth Jennings, the Northern version of Rosa Parks. Arthur’s victory in her case led to the desegregation of New York City’s public transportation.

During the Civil War, Arthur got an appointment as New York’s quartermaster general. After the war, Arthur returned to civilian life and became a Republican “party man” who worked behind the scenes to draw in voters, funding, and supporters. He and his wife Ellen (called Nell) both loved the finer things in life, which drove Arthur to do whatever he could to gain fame, wealth, and social status.

This is where I need to explain the spoils system. For the first hundred-plus years of American politics, all federal positions were filled by appointment. When a new president came into office, he could award government positions to his supporters--"to the victor go the spoils". Federal employees were required to donate money to the ruling party. There were no requirements for education or relevant experience. Any job could be filled by anyone with the right connections. If you think that sounds like a breeding ground for corruption and cronyism, you’d be absolutely right. By the 1870s, the system was getting extremely corrupt, and there was a growing push for reform.

But not by Chester Arthur. He owed his career to the spoils system. Through his work in the party, he became the right-hand man of Roscoe Conkling, New York’s senior senator and the state’s “political boss”. Conkling was a flamboyant showman, a magnetic politician, and a ruthless man. He had been a major supporter of Ulysses S. Grant’s presidential campaign, so Grant gave Conkling control over all the federal appointments in New York. Conkling used his power to fill positions with his friends and supporters, and he was brutal in attacking anyone who got in his way.

Because Chester Arthur was Conkling’s most loyal supporter, he got the best federal job in the country—Controller of the Port of New York. Before income tax, around 60-70% of federal funds came from the tariffs at this one port. The controller got a salary similar to the president’s, plus he was able to take a percentage of all the fines they levied. At the height of his power, Chester Arthur made $50,000 a year, which is a lot when the average skilled worker at the time made $500. (A rough estimate puts his salary at $1.3 million in today’s dollars.)

Arthur was living the high life. He racked up huge tailor bills. He had a gorgeously furnished house. His job allowed him to force his employees to donate a percentage of their salary to the Republican Party, which gave him even more power within the political machine. He bought huge amounts of wine and cigars that he handed out to people he was wining and dining for the good of the party. His wife resented that he was rarely home because of his political work, but Arthur loved the machine too much to stop.

After his 1876 election, President Rutherford B. Hayes desperately tried to reform the spoils system, but was blocked every step of the way by Roscoe Conkling. Finally, in 1878, Hayes managed to remove Arthur from his position as port controller, under suspicion of corruption, which allowed Arthur to spend more time working for New York’s political machine.

In January of 1880, Arthur was in Albany working for a political campaign when his wife caught pneumonia. By the time Arthur got home, Nell had fallen into a coma, and he wasn’t able to speak with her before she died. He felt guilty over her death, and especially the lack of closure caused by his devotion to politics. But instead of changing his ways, Arthur moved in with Conkling and became more devoted to politics than ever.

Which brings us to the 1880 Republican Convention. The Republican Party was split between two warring factions—the Stalwarts like Conkling who wanted to keep things the way they were, and the Half-Breeds who wanted civil service reform. President Hayes refused to seek re-election (partly because Conkling had made his life miserable) so these two factions somehow had to agree on a new candidate. Conkling supported a third term for Ulysses S. Grant. The Half-Breeds supported James G. Blaine of Maine—who happened to be Conkling’s mortal enemy.

James Garfield was there to nominate John Sherman—the Secretary of the Treasury and the younger brother of the famous Civil War general—and I can’t go any further in this story before I tell you a little bit about him. James Garfield is one of the most ridiculous overachievers in the realm of American politics. He was born into a dirt-poor farming family (he’s the last president ever to have been born in a log cabin). At sixteen, he left home to work on a canal boat, but quit after he nearly drowned, and his mother and brother scraped up enough money for him to go to school. His first year, he paid for his tuition by working as a school janitor. His second year, the school hired him to teach six classes (while he was still a student!) and then added two more because of how popular he was. By the time he was twenty-six, he was president of that same school. He became a lawyer and was elected to Ohio’s state legislature. During the Civil War, he became the youngest person to earn the rank of general. While fighting in the Civil War, his friends put his name in as a candidate for the US House of Representatives, and Garfield won even though he refused to campaign. He then served several terms in the House, where he became popular, but he refused to seek the presidency, because he’d watched several friends become warped by their presidential ambitions.

At the 1880 Republican Convention, Garfield was the more popular Ohio candidate, but insisted he was there only to nominate Sherman. At one point in his nominating speech, Garfield asked the audience, “Now, gentleman, what do we want?” To Garfield’s horror, one man shouted, “We want Garfield!”

Garfield remained loyal in nominating Sherman, but the spark had been lit. The voting went round after round after round for two days, with the votes being split between Grant, Blaine, and Sherman, with no one getting enough to win the nomination. Garfield got one vote in the third round. In the thirty-fourth round, Garfield suddenly got seventeen votes. Garfield stood to protest, saying no one had a right to vote for him since he hadn't consented, but the president of the convention--who was secretly thrilled because he liked Garfield more than any of the other candidates--told Garfield to sit down.

By the thirty-sixth vote, Garfield had won the nomination.

Now they had to choose a vice president. Several of the delegates got the idea to throw a bone to Roscoe Conkling. He was furious that Grant had lost the nomination, and he was vindictive. Conkling controlled New York’s political machine, so without him, the Republicans would lose New York, and without New York, they’d lose the election. He had to be placated. So the delegates nominated Chester Arthur, his right-hand man, as vice president.

Conkling told Arthur to refuse the nomination, but Arthur accepted, saying it was a greater honor than he had ever hoped to achieve. That's putting it mildly. The only position he’d ever held was port controller, and he’d been removed from that. Plenty of people thought nominating him was a horrible idea—a man like Chester Arthur only one step away from the presidency? But other people thought it was a shrewd political move—it would placate Conkling’s faction of the party, and Garfield was young and healthy and would rule in a time of peace. It wasn’t like there was any chance he’d die in office.

After Garfield was elected, Arthur immediately started causing problems. He all but openly boasted of buying votes in the election—which was not a great look when it had been a close race. He was completely on Conkling’s side in his war against Garfield. After Garfield appointed Levi Morton, a Stalwart, as Secretary of the Navy, Conkling sent Arthur and another lackey to drag Morton out of his sickbed--forcing him to drink a bracing mixture of quinine and brandy--and bring him to Conkling’s house to get chewed out, which caused Morton to resign. Conkling forced another Stalwart Cabinet nominee to resign on inauguration day.

Then Conkling went to war over the federal appointments. At first, Garfield placated him, appointing several of Conkling’s candidates. But then Garfield nominated Judge Robertson as Port Controller of New York Harbor. Conkling was livid. That was the prime federal position, a major source of Conkling’s power in the party, and Robertson was one of Conkling’s political enemies. In Conkling’s mind, Garfield had stabbed him in the back. Arthur agreed, and openly bad-mouthed the president to the press.

Conkling and the other New York senator resigned their Senate seats in protest—a dramatic political move. In those days, state legislatures voted for senators, and Conkling believed that since he controlled so many New York politicians, they’d easily get re-elected to their old seats. Unfortunately, the legislature was sick of being under Conkling’s thumb. The election became a drawn-out battle, and Chester Arthur went to Albany to help Conkling in his campaign.

While he was there, the unthinkable happened. On July 2, 1881, James Garfield was shot at a train station by Charles Guiteau, an insane office-seeker. Guiteau had come to the White House every day for months seeking an appointment under the spoils system. When that failed, he decided God wanted him to get Garfield out of the way so the spoils system could continue. After he shot the president, Giteau shouted, “I am a Stalwart, and Arthur will be president!”

As you can imagine, that made things really bad for Arthur. He’d just spent months fighting the president tooth and nail, and the assassin had mentioned his name. Plenty of people thought Arthur had something to do with the shooting. He and Conkling both needed police details to protect them from lynch mobs.

Arthur didn’t want to be president; in his mind, vice president was the perfect job—a position with a lot of political leverage, but no responsibility. He went to the White House hoping to convince Garfield that he had nothing to do with the shooting, but the doctors wouldn’t let him in the room. He managed to speak to the First Lady, where he got choked up with emotion and was observed to be in tears. A reporter later found him in the house where he was staying in Washington, and noted he'd obviously been weeping.

To Arthur’s relief, Garfield seemed to get better. The bullet had missed his spinal cord and all his major organs. If he’d been left alone, Garfield would have made a complete recovery. Unfortunately, his doctors repeatedly prodded the bullet wound with unsterilized instruments, and Garfield fell victim to a massive infection. He lingered for months, slowly starving and rotting to death.

Through all this, Arthur stayed in New York and refused to take up presidential duties; with so many people accusing him of the assassination, he didn’t want to make it look like he was preparing to usurp the throne.

It eventually became clear that the assassin had acted alone, which laid the rumors to rest, but no one wanted Arthur to be president. James Garfield had been a man of the people. The working class considered him one of their own, proof that anyone could rise from poverty and become president. He was an idealist, a champion of civil rights, a family man who lived modestly. For the first time since the Civil War, a president had been supported by both the north and the south, and the country had come together in grief. Chester Arthur was Garfield’s exact opposite—a conniving political lackey who’d become a millionaire through corruption.

James Garfield died on September 19th. To the American people, it looked like their worst nightmare had come true. Conkling’s lackey was in the White House, and now Conkling would rule the nation the same way he’d ruled New York.

Yet, to everyone’s surprise, President Chester Arthur became a completely different man. In one of his first speeches, he listed civil service reform as one of his top priorities—a shocking move for a man who’d become president through the spoils system. Soon after Arthur’s inauguration, Conkling demanded he name a new Controller of the Port of New York. Arthur angrily refused and called Conkling’s demand outrageous. Conkling stormed out in fury and never forgave Arthur. (Arthur did later risk his reputation to nominate Conkling for the Supreme Court, but Conkling, ever petty, refused the position.)

Arthur didn’t have a complete personality transplant. He still lived lavishly, hosting lots of state dinners. He still preferred the social duties of the presidency to actual government work, and he was a hopeless procrastinator. Always fastidious, Arthur refused to move in to the rotting, rat-infested White House until they fixed up the dump, and he ran up extravagant bills during the remodel.

Yet, as a president, he was...respectable. He worked for African-American civil rights. He started a major process of rebuilding and reforming the outdated and corrupt navy. He did sign the Chinese Exclusion Act, but he had vetoed an earlier, harsher version and only signed a much-reduced one (that probably would have been voted in anyway if he’d vetoed it). That remodel of the White House, even if it ran over-budget, was long overdue.

Most shocking of all was his unswerving devotion to civil service reform. He continued an investigation into a government postal scandal, even though everyone assumed he’d drop it. He voiced his continuing support for reform efforts. In 1883, Arthur signed the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act. As written, the act required only 10% of federal jobs to be assigned based on merit, and even that required the president to take action to enforce it. People assumed that Arthur would sit back and do nothing, so the spoils system would remain in place. Yet Arthur immediately formed a commission to enact the reform, even appointing some of his old enemies. The man who’d benefited most from the spoils system became the one to finally destroy it.

How do we explain such a complete and sudden change? Part of it’s a matter of personality. If I can indulge in a bit of meta, Chester Arthur seems to be a textbook example of the sanguine-phlegmatic temperament—someone who wants to fit in with the crowd, to go with the flow. As a political lackey, this made him self-serving and amoral, but as president, the crowd he had to impress was the American people. After months of getting crucified in the press, with tons of articles saying what they didn’t want him to be, he’d have plenty of motivation to become what they did want him to be.

A more important motivation, though, was death. His wife’s death was likely the first shock that would make him step back and take stock of his political career. Garfield’s death had an even more profound influence on him. The spoils system had led a madman to murder a president in Arthur’s name; if anything could motivate a man to change the system, that would be it. Even more profound than that was his own death. Not long after entering the White House, Arthur was diagnosed with a fatal kidney disease. He hid the diagnosis during his term, but his actions in office were the actions of a man doomed to die, with a mind toward the legacy he’d leave behind.

Yet there’s another stranger, more mysterious influence that I’ve left to last because of how cool the story is. The day before his death, Chester Arthur—who’d become ashamed of his old life—asked a friend to burn the vast majority of his papers. Years later, among the papers that had been spared, his grandson uncovered a packet of twenty-three letters from a 31-year-old invalid named Julia Sand. Julia came from a family very interested in politics, and her illness meant that she spent a lot of time reading the newspapers, so she was familiar with Chester Arthur’s political career. In August of 1881, she sent Chester Arthur a letter that began, “The hours of Garfield's life are numbered—before this meets your eye, you may be President. The people are bowed in grief; but—do you realize it?--not so much because he is dying, as because you are his successor.” Over seven pages, Julia scolded Arthur for his corrupt ways, but assured him of her faith in his better nature, and urged him to reform. She sent letters over the next two years, full of encouragement and scolding and political advice. She called herself his “little dwarf”, because her lack of ties to him meant she could be completely honest with him.

There’s no evidence he ever answered her. But she did offer some rather specific political advice that he seems to have followed. And he did visit her once. In 1882, he stopped by her house in the presidential carriage, surprising her and her family (who had no idea she’d been writing to the president) with an hour-long visit. She seemed to grow more frustrated with his lack of answers after that, and no letter exists after 1883.

There’s no way to say what kind of effect the letters had on him. But amid all the turmoil after the assassination, it must have meant something to have one voice saying she believed in him. She was a voice from outside the Washington political machine, who could serve as a sort of conscience. The fact that those letters survived when so much else burned suggests he considered them worth saving.

No matter the reason, the truth remains that Arthur entered the presidency as an example of all that was dirty and loathsome in the political system, and he left it as a respectable man. In giving up his old ways, he sacrificed connections he’d spent years building. His old friends never forgave him, and his old opponents never quite trusted his reform, yet he did what he thought was right even if it meant he stood alone. In summing up his presidency, I don’t think I can do better than contemporary journalist Alexander McClure: “No man ever entered the Presidency so profoundly and widely distrusted as Chester Alan Arthur, and no one ever retired... more generally respected, alike by political friend and foe.” I think that deserves to be remembered.

#history is awesome #presidential talk #i apologize but i really can't see any way to cut this down #i like the detour into garfield's nomination #i can't cut conkling out any more than i have #i can't leave out his wife #i didn't even mention that he was washington's most eligible bachelor during his term but he remained faithful to her memory #or that his sister served as hostess at the white house and helped raise his daughter (who he protected from the press as best he could)#or that he did make a half-hearted attempt to seek re-election so people wouldn't think he was slinking off in disgrace #and there was some support for him #but he didn't mind at all when someone else was nominated because he was dealing with his kidney disease #and he died in 1886 #which means he had the shortest post-presidency life of anyone except james k. polk who died three months after leaving office #i did not come into last week thinking that by the end of it i'd have developed a minor specialization #in the presidency of a guy i knew only for his facial hair and his half-verse in the animaniacs song #i didn't even mention the facial hair!#go to wikipedia and see his glorious muttonchops!#say what you will about the victorians but they had wild facial hair game #but anyway here is the life story of my impeccably dressed trash panda son #who is put together on the outside and a mess on the inside #and still manages to maintain a certain dignity despite how pathetic he is #he's a mess of a human being but i love him your honor

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quakerjoe · 5 months

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10 Laws of Thanksgiving Dinner

by Sam Sifton

1. Let me speak plainly: you are going to need a lot of butter. Thanksgiving is not a day for diets, or for worrying about your cholesterol. It is a day on which we celebrate the delicious. And there is precious little on a Thanksgiving menu that is not made more delicious by butter. (Note: It should be unsalted butter. There is something magical about a piece of toast with salted butter. But for Thanksgiving, you want the unsalted variety, so that it is you, and not the butter maker, who is in control of the saltiness of your cooking. Figure at least two pounds for the day.)

2. Thanksgiving is a holiday that anchors itself in tradition. Which means: You should make turkey. Turkey is why you are here.

3. I’ll risk starting a brushfire by saying with great confidence that the two most important factors in any credible Thanksgiving feast are the cranberry sauce and the gravy. Debate that all you like. But they tie every element on the plate together, acting as frame and foundation alike. Cranberry sauce only enhances what is already excellent, and good gravy can cure almost any Thanksgiving ill.

4. You can make mashed potatoes lumpy with a fork or a masher device, or smooth with a food mill or stand mixer. And of course you can make them without peeling the potatoes, if your scrub the skins well. This makes for an attractive, rustic-looking dish. Indeed, the only trouble that should ever present itself when the subject comes to mashed potatoes and Thanksgiving is should someone demand that garlic or basil be added to the mix. Your response to this heresy should be brief and unequivocal: No. There is no place in the holiday for a mixture of garlic and potatoes, much less basil and potatoes. The flavors clash with the turkey and other sides. No.

5. Start serving drinks the minutes your guests arrive, no matter the hour. Thanksgiving is not a time to judge.

6. When hosting, do not be afraid to delegate.

7. Dessert need not be extravagant. It absolutely should not be experimental or overly cute. It must not involve individual tartlets or parfaits, nor marshmallows in any form. Save the chocolate for nights of depression and anxiety. Instead, focus on the proper execution of the American classics: apple pie, for instance, with a mound of whipped cream, or pumpkin pie with same. These represent Thanksgiving’s highest achievement. They are an explanation of American exceptionalism, in pastry form.

8. There is no “right” wine for Thanksgiving, no must-have grape or vintage, cocktail or spirit. Nor is there a “wrong” one, though I’d stay away from the low-end fortified stuff unless you are in a boxcar, hurtling west. What you want is a variety of grapes and vintages. Encourage guests to bring wines that interest them, wines that they would like others to try. Additionally, lay in some specialty items: beer for your uncle who only drinks Bud; nonalcoholic sparkling cider for the children; and plenty of Diet Cokes and ashtrays for those who no longer drink.

9. If you find yourself as a guest at someone else’s Thanksgiving, there is no finer gift to bring than a pie and a bottle of brown liquor.

10. As everyone takes a seat and prepares to eat, there is the delicate moment where you or someone at the table should ask for everyone’s attention, and offer thanks to one and all for being present, and for helping out. This is extraordinarily important. It is the point of the entire exercise. William Jennings Bryan wrote, “On Thanksgiving Day, we acknowledge our dependence.” I think that’s just about right.

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leejihoonownsmyheart · 1 year

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hiii!!! i loved part 6 so much!! i'm so happy with the angst cos i love angst lmao.

in the meantime, since your series has become my favorite 😭😭😭... while waiting for your next update, could you maybe (please) recommend me some jeonghan x y/n or oc fics that you loved? maybe angsty ones too if you know of any!

thank you so much, i love your work and i'll be patiently waiting for the next update <333

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Hi!! I'm so glad that you enjoyed part 6! Especially that you were happy with the angst haha, whenever I read angst I have to skim-read until I get to the resolution and then I can go back and read the finer details cause I get impatient 🫠

I'm so sorry I took so long to get to this by the way! I was like I need to set some serious time aside to rec these fics and then I just kept putting it off and then I just sat down to do this and remembered that I had recced Lovin’ Me by @/itsbeeble (an amazing angsty Jeonghan series btw in case you haven't read it yet- I'll rec this until I die) before and realized I've recced some recently so I'm just a dumb mess lol

I recced some Jeonghan stories at this post here in case you haven't seen that yet I also have this post here that I'm posting like at the same time as this but those are mostly fluffy this is not..?

A short Jeonghan enemy smut by @constantlyoncoupsbrainrot

Some general stories I just love are:

Push it down (sooner or later it all comes out) by @dontflailmenow a Seungcheol camboy series which is ridiculously good (Also I have read I think Jen's whole masterlist now...? Every story she writes is good I highly suggest it)

Also Sapiosexual by @smileysuh is.... I read it recently because I'm trying to read more stuff here and it was such a good read. It's about sugar daddy!Cheol and I feel like that's all that has to be said? so good

#I'm so sorry I am so long-winded lol #I swear this summer I’m going to read so many seventeen fics and I will have so much to rec 🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️#b: 💟 anon #Jeonghan is literally killing me these days #also seungcheol too but lets be blind to that until august 😶

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slashingdisneypasta · 8 months

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HIIIII I LOVE UR WORK, especially when it comes to horror house,so i was wondering what it would be like if all the residents of the horror house swapped bodies??ur like my fav fav favvvvvv Tumblr blog and I wish u the best day/evening/night everr💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗

Oh boy, i'm sorry this has taken so long- I believe I was on placement when this was sent in and I'm just getting to placement time asks now! 😅

First of all thank you so much!! ^^ Second of all- the short answer to your question- it would be c h a o s XD Haha XD

I'm gonna use a random picker website to choose who would swap bodies with who... so lets see what happens XD

Audrey II & Stu Macher

Audrey II's Reaction: Well well well! So this is what its like havin legs?? I've never felt so mobile! Not bad not bad! Lets test these out~ Audrey:

Stu's Reaction, stuck in the quiet greenhouse outside: *sighhhhhhh he's so bored* ... why do I have a bad feeling. Stu: ... whatever, its probably nothing. I wonder if this thing has balls-

Billy Loomis & Jason Voorhees

Billy's Reaction: ... *Refuses to talk. It will ruin the illusion for him XDD But he is a lot more animated than Jason has ever been! XD* Jason's Reaction: *Is an even more feral looking version of Billy, except silent* * Bonus: Billy: Fuck it I'm taking this off *Goes for the mask* Jason, in Billy's body: *Lunges*

Carrie White & Bubba Sawyer

Carrie's Reaction: *Tries to do something simple like close the oven door and slams it* I'm so sorry!! I- I'm not usually this strong!! I'll try to be gentler!! Bubba how do you sew with these hands?? Help, p- please! Bubba's Reaction: *A f r a i d to b r e a k h e r. She is so itty bitty! He will be walking around helping Carrie like he's made of glass for the entire experience XD*

Chucky Lee Ray & Tiffany Valentine

Chucky's Reaction: This is getting fucken ridiculous. But, uh... *finers wriggling towards chest* there are perks!~ Tiffany's Reaction: *Evil grin* I think its a bout time I had a haircut!

Freddy Krueger & Patrick Bateman

Freddy's Reaction: ... Well, time to go to work!~ *Trying to ruin Patricks entire life* Patrick's Reaction: I don't even fucken know where half these aches and pains are coming from... when was the last time this ugly bastard stood straight- *hears his Cadillac start up* *Bolts outside*

Jennifer Check & Jerry Dandridge

Jennifer's Reaction: *Furious* It had to be a dude... Jerry's Reaction: *Cool with it* What moisturiser do you use, Jen?

The Leprechaun & Pennywise

These two... are gonna be trouble.

Michael Myers & Pamela Voorhees

Michael's Reaction: *Furiously trying to stop Pam from bathing him* Pam's Reaction: *Locked in the bathroom* Goodness when was the last time this boy scrubbed these nails?

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Hi Emma! For the prompt game: Flowers + Jack + fluff? 💖 (psst you're amazing and I'm gonna love whatever you decide to do with this!)

Jen I had so much fun with this one. I hope you like the cowboy AU I went with. Thank you for betaing when I was so psyched to share this, @acrossthesestars 😘

It started as a game.

Every time the Statesman rode into your dusty, lawless town (a frequent enough occurrence, between hunting various bandits, thieves, and other assorted rogues), Jack sought you out. Ever since that first time he’d caught a glimpse of you leaning out a window of the saloon, your hair half done and your tattered silks slipping from your shoulders, paint on your face and a dream in your eyes, he'd had eyes only for you.

He’d met you in the bar, tipped his hat and called you ma’am before asking for the pleasure of your company for an evening. He was different from the others who sought you out. Well-mannered. Even tempered. Clean, other than the dirt of a hard journey on his heels - and he’d always taken his boots off before carrying you to your own bed.

And oh, the things the two of you did in that bed.

It wasn’t long before he was asking you to come away with him.

Come on sweetheart, what do you say?

Trying to take me away from all this, cowboy?

And if I were?

Ask me again next time.

He did. He showed up again months later, his suit finer and his horse sleeker. The rogue business was booming, he said later that night, his breath warm on your neck, his fingers gentle against your curves.

Come with me, darlin’. If only so I can get some damn peace. How’s a man supposed to sleep or work or, hell, think when he’s this lovesick?

You were no stranger to flattery, or the silver-tongued promises of a man wanting something. Oh it sounded good now, with the moonlight spilling over your sheets and those clever lips making you see stars, but where would you be when his passion waned?

Right back where you were when you fetched up in this dust pit to begin with.

Still, there couldn’t be any harm in seeing him again, and his sweet words reminded you of the old tales your mama had lulled you to sleep with - of knights and maidens and happy endings.

Tell you what, cowboy. You guess my favorite flower and I’ll come away with you.

The grin he’d given you then was sweet enough to coax gold from a miser’s fist.

Every time he came to you from then on, he had flowers in his hands, mostly of the wildflower variety: purple coneflowers and Black-Eyed Susans, asters and hyssop. Once he brought you an orchid, a tender, fey thing he must have nursed for weary miles to place into your waiting hands.

He never guessed your favorite. Every time you smiled, shook your head gently, and placed them in a green glass jar beside your bed while Jack did his best to draw hints from your sweetly parted lips.

Your flowers - are they the color of your eyes? Do they grow alone? Is their nectar as honeyed as your taste on my fingers? Next time, sweetheart, next time I’ll bring the right ones.

You started to worry he’d tire of the game. Oh, he always paid well, a tidy stack of silver coins on windowsill in the morning, their clinking mocking you as you scooped them up.

Promises and flowers are all well enough, they seemed to whisper, but you can only rely on us.

Months slipped past. Seasons. Scorched grass summer turned to rusty red autumn. There was ice on the windowpanes and frost on your breath by the time Jack returned. Your heart leapt, though you knew it was too cold for flowers.

He’ll have to come again at least once more, you thought, your heart as quick as your steps as you raced toward him through the crowded bar.

He caught you with a grin, his coat smelling of snow and far off woods. Or maybe that was just the greenery in his hand.

Jack had brought you fir branches instead, their wild sap rising in the amber shadows of your room as the two of you made up for lost time.

Later, when the fire burned to glowing embers, Jack cleared his throat - nervous for the first time since you’d met.

“I know it ain’t quite what I promised and in the ordinary course of things I’m not one to go back on my word but, well, maybe this will be the right one after all.”

You sat up, puzzled, the quilt falling from your bare shoulder. Jack tugged it back into place before leaning to reach for his saddlebags. He placed a box in your hands, one about the size of a loaf and just as light, all wrapped in brown paper and tied with red and white string. His dark gaze never strayed as you bent to open it, his expression somewhere between apprehension and hope as you lifted out the finest cup and saucer you’d ever laid eyes on. Near paper thin and bone white, other than a delicate ring of flowers around the rim.

Your favorite flowers.

It wasn’t smoke that blurred your vision then. Afraid you’d drop the dainty thing, you set it down on the scrubbed pine table beside your bed, the cup rattling in the saucer with a chime.

Jack’s face fell.

“Oh, darlin’, don’t you like it? I was sure I guessed right this time but - “

You stopped his mouth with a teary kiss. “It’s beautiful. And those are my favorite. But now you’ve guessed and you won’t need to come back - and besides, it’s too nice for a place like this, what if something happens to it?” You’re rambling, your mind shying like a spooked horse at the thought of losing this. Of losing him.

The last thing you expected was for Jack to laugh, but laugh he does until tears are streaming from his eyes. “What a pair of fools,” he chuckles. Before you can even open your mouth to protest he quiets and takes your hands.

“Sweetheart, I have a whole set of those dishes waiting back home. They’re yours - if you’ll do me the honor of marrying me. That’s what this has all been about. Or did you think I wasn’t a man of my word?”

He pouts prettier than any girl in the cathouse, and you tell him as much through your own relieved tears and a laughing kiss.

“Jack Daniels, if you thought I would have trusted my future to any old sweet-talking lawman blazing in and out of town like a comet, then you really would be a fool. But oh, if you are then I am one too, and it wouldn’t do to break up a set.”

By the time the embers draw up their blanket of ash, the two of you are wrapped up in each other once more, your bodies nestled together like spoons in drawer while you drift off planning a future together.

#Jack ‘Whiskey’ Daniels x reader #Jack Daniels x Reader #Jack Daniels x F!Reader #Jack ‘Whiskey’ Daniels x F!Reader #Jack ‘Whiskey’ Daniels #Fic #My Fic

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I want to hear about Wanda's friendship with some of the Avengers, specifically Natasha and Steve? Where they good friends or just coworkers to her?

ask my muse about their relationship with other muses ;; accepting

“The Avengers are my family,” she answered with a smile. “I’m closer with some of the core members, but anyone who has had membership has paid their dues and is part of the Avengers. Once and always.”

“My brother and I needed a second chance. Maybe we didn’t deserve one. We were only teens, but we knew right from wrong. The Avengers accepted us and helped us grow and learn. Steve took a chance on us and I’ll always be grateful. His trust in me has kept me going through a lot of difficult times.”

Wanda knew that many of the Avengers had come and gone, and they all had different opinions and views on what sort of person she was. She’d done a lot of bad things, made many mistakes. She’d worked hard to atone and the Avengers still accepted her. Steve, Natasha, Clint, Tony, Jen, Jan… the list was long. She loved them. The relationships did vary and change, but overall and to put it simply, they were family.

“Steve and Natasha are really important to me. As I say, Steve basically took me in. Natasha has taught me a lot. Steve started my physical training and instructions in fighting, but Natasha gave me finer details. They both impress me greatly.”

They were important in different ways, but certainly more than mere coworkers. One couldn’t go through world ending, life threatening circumstances without growing closer to each other.

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30 May 23

A political crisis that has spiraled into violence in Kosovo's north has intensified since ethnic Albanian mayors took office in the region's Serb-majority area, a move that led the U.S. and its allies to rebuke Pristina. The majority Serb population had boycotted the April election, allowing ethnic Albanians to be elected. [...] On Thursday, Biden's principal deputy national security adviser, Jon Finer, spoke with Kurti and called for Kosovo "to enable newly elected mayors to carry out their duties from alternative locations and to withdraw police forces from municipal buildings," the White House said.

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so.....Hyperforce!

For those of you who don’t know, Hyperforce was a Power Rangers-themed RPG session hosted by Renegade Studios around....2018-ish. They got some pretty notable people - such as the Sudarso brothers, Paul Schrier, Andre the Black Nerd, Christina Vee, and Meghan Camarena - to play the members of an all-new original team of Rangers in an all-new original “season,” typically bringing in a different PR alumni to cameo as their character per episode. The show didn’t manage to greenlight a second season, but it got pretty popular in the fandom, and with Melissa Flores back writing for the comics, it looks like she’s using the opportunity to basically give Hyperforce the second season it missed out on through this event - starting with their own Unlimited one-shot.

My thoughts on this and Hyperforce itself are......mixed. But I’ll wait until the full book is out before I talk about that more. These are just the previews! So let’s talk about the previews

- Hi Chloe you’re looking and acting very Ranger Slayer here. Ranger Slayer.........where is she...........I miss her

- yeah that’s probably a good idea because i am NOT rewatching all of that

- so here’s a pretty decent summary of the first season. I’ll be interested to see how well this book goes over with non-fandom people, because while obviously this fills in what Hyperforce is and where we are now with it, it’s obviously missing the finer details of what made Hyperforce endearing to fans in the first place. But we’ll get to that when we get to that. At the very least this confirms they’re in an alternate dimension/timeline, at least

- Sorry guys but if you involve Jen in this you’re not beating the “this event is just trying to be Shattered Grid 2.0″ allegations

- don’t keep making Ranger Slayer comparisons don’t keep making Ranger Slayer comparisons

- the Battlizer design is still cool though, i’ll give them that.

- I don’t really remember the full context for this since by the end I was kind of burnt out with the show but I’m preeeeeeetty sure the twist is that she’s not really on the bad guys’ side, right. right. because I’m trying SO HARD not to keep making Ranger Slayer comparisons

#mmpr comic #mmpr comic spoilers #spoilers #comic preview #PR Unlimited #Hyperforce

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Band lineups

This will include all the band and what lineups have been submitted. It will be updated as more submissions come in. (Not complete at all)

Guns’N Roses: Axl Rose, Slash, Izzy Stradlin, Duff McKagan and Steven Adler

Mötley Crüe: Vince Neil, Mick Mars, Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee

Queen: Freddie Mercury, Brian May, John Deacon and Roger Taylor

Hanoi Rocks: Michael Monroe, Andy McCoy, Nasty Suicide, Razzle and Sami Yafta

Iron Maiden: Bruce Dickinson, Dave Murray, Adrian Smith, Steve Harris and Nicko McBrain

Poison: Bret Michaels, C.C. Deville, Bobby Dall and Rikki Rockett

Rush: Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart

Anthrax: Frank Bello, Joey Belladonna, Scott Ian, Charlie Benante and Dan Spitz

Possessed: Jeff Becerra, Mike Torrao, Larry LaLonde and Mike Sus

Bon Jovi: Jon Bon Jovi, David Bryan, Tico Torres, Alec John Such and Richie Sambora

Skid Row: Sebastian Bach, Dave Sabo, Scotti Hill, Rachel Bolan and Rob Affuso

Talking Heads: David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison

Warrant: Jani Lane, Joey Allen, Erik Turner, Steven Sweet and Jerry Dixon

The Cure: Robert Smith, Simon Gallup, Lol Tolhurst, Roger O'Donnell, Porl Thompson and Boris Williams

The Bangles: Susanna Hoffs, Vicki Peterson, Debbi Peterson and Michael Steele

Def Leppard: Rick Savage, Phil Collen, Steve Clark, Rick Allen and Joe Elliott

The Traveling Wilburys: Nelson Wilbury (George Harrison), Otis Wilbury (Jeff Lynne), Charlie T. Wilbury Jr (Tom Petty), Lefty Wilbury (Roy Orbison), Lucky Wilbury (Bob Dylan)

U2: Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr.

Dokken: Don Dokken, Mick Brown, Jeff Pilsen and George Lynch

Blondie: Clem Burke, Jimmy Destri, Nigel Harrison, Deborah Harry, Frank Infante and Chris Stein

Duran Duran: Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, John Taylor, Andy Taylor and Roger Taylor

Quiet Riot: Kevin DuBrow, Carlos Cavazo , Rudy Sarzo and Frankie Banali

Aerosmith: Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, Tom Hamilton and Joey Kramer

Dio: Ronnie James Dio, Vinny Appice, Jimmy Bain and Vivian Campbell

Metallica: James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, Cliff Burton and Lars Ulrich

Winger: Kip Winger, Reb Beach, Paul Taylor and Rod Morgenstein

The Human League: Ian Burden, Philip Oakley, Susan Ann Sulley, Joanne Catherall, Jo Callis, Jim Russell and Philip Adrian Wright

The Clash: Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon and Topper Headon

Cinderella: Tom Keiffer, Eric Brittingham, Jeff LeBar and Jim Drinec

Nirvana: Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic and Chad Channing

The Smiths: Morrissey, Johnny Marr, Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce

The Police: Sting, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland

They Might Be Giants: John Linnell and John Flansburgh

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: Bruce Springsteen, Clarence Clemons, Garry Tallent, Roy Bittan, Danny Federici, Max Weinberg, Nils Lofgren and Patti Scialfa

R.E.M.: Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe

Spın̈al Tap: David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean), Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest), Smalls (Harry Shearer), Viv Savage (David Kaff) and Mick Shrimpton (Ric Parnell)

Tin Machine: David Bowie, Reeves Gabrels, Tony Fox Sales and Hunt Sales

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Anthony Kiedis, Flea, Chad Smith and John Frusciante

ZZ Top: Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard

AC/DC: Brian Johnson, Angus Young, Malcolm Young, Cliff Williams, Phil Rudd

Beastie Boys: Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz, Adam "MCA" Yauch and Michael "Mike D" Diamond

Depeche Mode: Dave Gahan, Martin Gore, Alan Wilder and Andy Fletcher

The Pogues: Shane MacGowan, James Fearnley, Jen Finer, Terry Woods, Peter “Spider” Stacy, Andrew Ranken, Darryl Hunt and Philip Chevron

Bauhaus: Peter Murphy, Daniel Ash, Kevin Haskins and David J

Prince and the Revolution: Prince, Bobby, Brown Mark, Wendy Melvoin, Lisa Coleman and Matt "Dr." Fink

Joy Division: Ian Curtis, Bernard Summer, Peter Hook and Stephen Morris

Fleetwood Mac: Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood

Devo: Gerald Casale, Mark Mothersbaugh, Bob "Bob 1" Mothersbaugh, Bob "Bob 2" Casale and Alan Myers

Van Halen: David Lee Roth, Eddie Van Halen, Michael Anthony and Alex Van Halen

Van Halen (Hagar era): Sammy Hagar, Eddie Van Halen, Michael Anthony and Alex Van Halen

Led Zeppelin: Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and John Bonham

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts: Joan Jett, Ricky Byrd, Gary Ryan and Lee Crystal

Genesis: Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford and Phil Collins

Primus: Les Claypool, Larry "Ler" LaLonde and Tim "Herb" Alexander

Ramones: Joey Ramone, Johnny Ramone, Dee Dee Ramone and Marky Ramone

Yes: Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Chris Squire, Tony Kaye andAlan White

Siouxsie and the Banshees: Siouxsie Soux, Steven Severin, Budgie and John McGeoch

Kraftwerk: Ralf Hütter, Florian Schneider and Karl Bartos

The Alan Parsons Project: Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson

Hall and Oates: Daryl Hall and John Oates

Echo and the Bunnymen:Ian McCulloch, Will Sergeant, Les Pattinson and Pete De Freitas

Tears for Fears: Curt Smith, Roland Ozabal, Ian Stanley and Manny Elias

The Psychedelic Furs: Richard butler, Tim butler, John Ashton and Vince Ely

Misfits:Glenn Danzig, Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein, Jerry Only and Arthur Googy

Living Colour: Corey Glover, Vernon Reid, Muzz Skillings and Will Calhoun

XTC:Andy Partridge, Colin Moulding and Dave Gregory

Adam and the Ants: Adam Ant, Marco Pirroni, Merrick, Terry Lee Miall and Gary Tibbs

Run-DMC: Joseph "Run" Simmons, Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels and Jam Master Jay

King Crimson: Adrian Belew, Robert Fripp, Tony Levin and Bill Bruford

Public Enemy: Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Terminator X, The Bomb Squad and Professor Griff

KISS: Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Eric Carr and Bruce Kulick

N.W.A.: Eazy-E, Ice Cube, MC Rend, Dr. Dre , DJ Yella and Arabian Prince

Whitesnake: David Coverdale, John Sykes, Neil Murray, Aynsley Dunbar and Don Airey

Black Sabbath: Ronnie James Dio, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward

Deep Purple: Ian Gillan, Ritchie Blackmore, John Lord, Roger Glover and Ian Paice

L.A. Guns: Phil Lewis, Tracii Guns, Mick Cripps, Kelly Nickels, Nickey Alexander and Steve Riley

W.A.S.P.: Blackie Lawless, Chris Holmes, Randy Piper and Tony Richards

The B-52’s: Kate Pierson, Cindy Wilson, Fred Schneider, Ricky Wilson and Keith Strickland

Vixen: Jan Kuehnemund, Janet Gardner, Share Ross and Roxy Petrucci

The Go Go’s: Belinda Carlisle, Jane Weidlin, Charlotte Caffey, Gina Schock and Kathy Valentine

The Residents: Hardy Fox, All other members have remained anonymous by choice, instead performing with masks on. There are four active Residents in live shows, though it is unknown how many have joined or left the group or been active at any given time.

Pretenders: Chrissie Hynde, Robbie McIntosh, Malcolm Foster and Martin Chamber

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Tom Petty, Mike Campbell, Benmont Tench, Howie Epstein and Stan Lynch

Asia: John Wetton, Geoff Downes, Steve Howe and Carl Palmer

Jethro Tull: Ian Anderson, Martin Barre, Doane Perry, Peter-John Vettese and Dave Pegg

Green Day: Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and John Kiffmeyer

Journey: Steve Perry, Neal Schon, Gregg Rolie, Ross Valory and Steve Smith

Wham!: George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley

Pet Shop Boys: Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant

The Who: Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle and Kenney Jones

Scorpions: Klaus Meine, Rudolf Schenker, Matthias Jabs, Francis Buchholz and Herman Rarebell

Heart: Ann Wilson, Nancy Wilson, Howard Leese, Mark Andes and Denny Carmassi

Ratt: Stephen Pearce, Robbin Crosby, Warren DeMartini, Bobby Blotzer and Juan Croucier

The Beach Boys: Mike Love, Al Jardine, Carl Wilson, Bruce Johnston and Brian Wilson

Queensrÿche: Geoff Tate, Michael Wilton, Chris DeGarmo, Eddie Jackson and Scott Rockenfield

The Cars:

Foreigner:

Marillion:

GWAR:

Max Webster:

Twisted Sister:

Stray Cats:

Megadeth:

The Stone Roses:

Slayer:

Operation Ivy:

Bam Bam:

Cybotron:

#80s bands #hottest 80s band tourney

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Carl Tart

Wine and the Grand Crew

By Jay S. Jacobs

It’s sort of the ideal working arrangement; a whole group of friends hanging out at a wine bar, joking with each other, philosophizing about life and trading stories over glasses of merlot, pinot grigio, or chardonnay.

Comedian, actor and writer Carl Tart is living that dream on the new NBC series Grand Crew.

In the series, a group of friends including Tart, Echo Kellum, Nicole Byer, Justin Cunningham, Aaron Jennings and Grasie Mercedes share the Los Angeles night life in a wine bar named Cru. They share their lives and experiences and in jokes and deal with the complications of real life.

The series was created by Brooklyn Nine-Nine veterans Phil Augusta Jackson and Dan Gore. Tart worked on the writing staff of that series. Tart has worked as a writer on other shows as well, including Mad TV. He is also currently doing a voice over role on the animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks. And he is a part of the popular LA improv group The Big Team.

We recently got together on Zoom with Tart to discuss Grand Crew, wine, Star Trek and the finer aspects of roasting.

What was it about Grand Crew that made you want to be a part of it?

A job is a job. Of course I want to be a part of it. (laughs) One of the bigger draws to this one is that it's a family affair. It’s really a collaboration. Me and Phil Augusta Jackson have been friends for a very long time. About a decade, about 10 years. Dan Gore was my boss [when] I was writing on Brooklyn Nine-Nine as well. Then once Nicole [Byer] was signed on, it was just like, “Man, I got to figure out a way to get in here.” Also it was a weird place to be in, because it was that thing: “Okay, my friend just sold a TV show. How cool is that? I'm happy for him.” But also, hook a brother up. He wasn't able to hook me up. I still had to audition quite a bit for it. But I'm so happy and grateful to be a part of it because it's a real family affair between the writers’ room and the cast. I’ve got so many friends, so many close friends, people who I've been collaborating with closely for the past 15 years basically.

Like you mentioned, you've done writing as well for things like Brooklyn Nine-Nine and MAD-TV. Do you have any input in your character at all? Or in the character arc or anything? Or is that something that you just leave to the writers?

That's something that I really leave to the writers. Like I said, there are people in that writers’ room who know me better than I know myself. They do a lot of good stuff. But sometimes Phil is definitely like, “Hey, if there's something that you really don't like, let me know.” There's usually nothing like that, but sometimes I go, “Hey, man, can I change the way this is said?” Or “I got a joke pitch on this. Let me try it and see if you like it.” Sometimes it makes it into the show, for sure.

You said that they know you so in what ways is Sherm like you? And what are some of the ways that he different?

What Phil based this character off of, when I knew that I could play this guy, he said, “This guy didn't go to college, but he's probably the smartest guy in the room.” I'm not going to gas myself up like that. But my friends joke with me a lot, because I know a little bit about a lot of stuff. Somebody will ask a random question and I'll know the whole backstory of it. They'll be like, “How do you know that?” I went to college, but only for a year. I think that was one part of it. The kind of indignant indignity of him. My friends told me that I'm like that. Just that comic relief in the group I think I bring to it. I help it out in that way.

One cool thing about the group is like you said, you seem to be one of the smarter ones in the room. I won't say the smartest, but you're a little bit more street smart. I like the way that all the characters, they're very different and yet they work together so well. Why do you think that your group – both as characters and as actors – mesh so well?

I think it's exactly what you said. We are all different as people. We all have different interests. We all like different things. Yet, we are all such great friends. I think that's any friend group. Any friend group is going to be different people who have like-minded tendencies within that group, but definitely, different personalities, different opinions. That's what supports a fruitful friendship. I think in my opinion, you're going to argue with some of your people, but it's all love at the end of the day.

I've got to admit, I don't quite see Sherm as a wine guy, though. What do you tend to drink if you were out drinking with friends?

If my kitchen wasn't dirty right now, I'd show you how much wine I got over here. The show is based off of our real friend group hanging out at a wine bar. We started going to this place around 2015, I would say. One thing that is great about that place is that they sit you down. You say okay, what do I like? I tell them what I like, and they go “Okay, let me get a couple of options for you.” Back when we first started, I would go, “Give me something fruity. I don't want that sour stuff.” I didn't grow up a wine drinker. I didn't grow up a drinker of anything. That sounds crazy! (laughs) When I became an adult, I didn't start with wine. That place that we go to they teach you about it. They say, “Look out for these notes. Look out for this. What do you taste? What do you feel when you drink it? Is it this? Is it that?” Once it becomes like a science, it becomes more fun to drink. That's how I got into it more.

In the first episode of the season at one point you said that the truth doesn't matter, it's what you want people to believe that really matters.

That’s the world we live in right now.

What would you like for people to believe about Sherm?

Believe that he's got everything in control.

In the upcoming episode you're supposed to teach Wyatt all you know about roasting. What does he need to know?

There's a lot of historical elements of that. You got to teach him the hand motions. You got to teach him what to go at. What's off limits. What’s okay. All that type of stuff. There's an art to it. There's an art to the roasting with your homies. That's basically what he's teaching, the ballet of it, if you will.

Do you think that LeBron James is happy?

I do think LeBron James is happy, honestly. I hope that he is. He deserves to be happy. But I hope he's not happy after tonight's game. The Clippers play the Lakers tonight and I hope he's very upset.

Not only are you doing this show, you've also been playing a character in Star Trek: Lower Decks. What is it like to be part of such an iconic franchise like that?

I play Lieutenant Kayshon on Star Trek: Lower Decks. That's a Tamarian character. It was pulled from when Paul Winfield did it on Next Generation. It's so much fun being a part of that. People love it so much. People have come to my improv shows with puppets of the character and they want me to sign and stuff like that. It is so cool. I wish I had more of the lore with that show. I didn't really grow up watching it that often. And I'm not really into it now. But it's so much fun to do. I just have to make sure when we're recording that I'm getting the words exactly right. Because if you get something wrong, they will come after you.

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24,25,26,&27 for Hank

What do you think is a secret they have that they never told anyone?

I think he has a lot, but more specifically I don't think any of the Infinitors know the finer details of his life, Jen knows that he's from Poughkeepsie, New York but everything else is basically never something they're going to find out.

When do you think they acted the most ooc

GL 152 because I feel like every other part of the villain arc can be traced back to something about Hank, I probably wouldn't be so insistent on Mister Mind being involved if there weren't so many moments where I was like "he would not say this, this did not happen" because sometimes it seems like the GL writers think that Hank left Infinity Inc. in issue 12 and never came back.

When do you think they were being "themselves" the most?

Unfortunately his JSA All-Stars arc, which means I have to tell people to read JSA All-Stars for Hank. I think it feels like the most natural development for his character, although I think he was lying to himself about making the right decision at the end. I also think the writer hated the Bad Thoughts retcon too because he went out of his way to make Hank overtly sympathize with criminals and view them as human when the other heroes did not.

Anyway *points* my boy, please ignore his hair in this one.

If they could meet a character from another show/movie/etc, who would be the most fun for them to meet?

X-Men telepaths... I think he might snap and start strangling Charles Xavier. I think this would be very funny.

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When you pick up Roland’s wanted poster, it states that he’s 20 years old. Based on that info and maybe speculation, how old do you think the other characters are?

Aha okay so I’ve thought about this a ton! Like you’ve probably noticed, Roland seems to be the only person with a canon age, so a lot of it is speculation, but I do have my own guesses that I’ve been putting together based on in-game info.

In this list I’ve got, I differentiate the canon stuff from my Subjective Opinion by tacking on a “SO” label, and I’m assuming that all of these ages are from the beginning of the game. If I’m missing anyone you’re curious about, or if I got any lore stuff wrong/missed any lore stuff, feel free to let me know.

Readmore for spoilers--many of them are pretty significant, and they span a lot of the routes/character stories.

Piccoletta: (SO 13 years)

Quahuag: (SO 14 years)

Jens: (SO 28 years) (SO 17 years)

Edit: After watching his recruitment character story, I noticed that he’s referred to as “Young Smithy” before we learn his name, and Serenoa also calls him “lad,” implying that he’s a fair bit younger than Serenoa himself is.

Cordelia: less than 20 years (SO 18 years)

Cordelia is younger than Roland, who’s 20 like you mentioned. Given her maturity + everyone’s relative acceptance of her betrothal to Gustadolph, I usually range her between 16-19 years old, but I don’t think there’s anything in canon that gives a firm lower limit for her age.

Thalas + Erika: (SO 20 years)

I headcanon them as twins, but as far as I know there’s no in-game evidence for this. I feel like somewhere it’s mentioned that they’re younger than Frederica, but I also can’t find a source for that. Edit: via @miraclebean in the notes, “Frederika's character bio says she's the eldest daughter, so at least Erika is younger.” Thanks!

Roland: ~20 years

This is stated explicitly in that wanted poster you mentioned, which I’m pretty sure you can pick up during an exploration phase in Wolffort demesne before choosing whether to give him up or defend him. If you want to say he was 19 at the very beginning of the game and had a birthday somewhere between then and the Aesfrosti invasion, you could, but otherwise 20′s a hard number.

Trish: (SO 21 years)

Serenoa: (SO 24 years)

Hughette: (SO 25 years)

Given her status as Roland’s retainer, I’m assuming she’s older than him. But given the softly-implied feelings she has for him, I wouldn’t say they’re too far apart in age.

Frederica: ~30 years old (SO 26 years)

I have a lot of thoughts on Frederica! Lady Orlaea was theoretically handed over shortly after the end of the war (I forget when this was mentioned in-game, but in some of my personal notes, I have that Lady Orlaea was handed over to Hyzante because they threatened to otherwise pin total responsibility for the war onto Aesfrost). This would make Frederica at least 30 years old. But, just going purely off vibes, it feels like she’s closer in age to Roland/Serenoa, who I imagine are somewhat younger than 30. So, I theorize that, while the ceasefire was put in place 30 years ago, figuring out the finer details of blame and compensation stretched on for several additional years during peace talks, allowing Lady Orlaea to stay in Aesfrost longer, and therefore for Frederica to be younger than 30. But if you’re going for lore accuracy over vibe accuracy haha, I’d put her at 30.

Frani: (SO 28 years)

I imagine he was born after the Saltiron War and is also older than Serenoa, but I can’t find any source that proves that.

Dragan: (SO 29 years)

I headcanon Dragan as being born shortly after the end of the war, but that’s not stated anywhere in canon.

He makes a lot of references to being part of the ardent youth, so it makes sense that he’d be on the younger side of the cast.

A fun fact about Dragan + Avlora: during the exploration phase before the tourney, he talks as if he’s never met Avlora before, or at the very least doesn’t know her very well. However, during her character story, Avlora claims that Lord Svarog took her in when she was orphaned. If you’re assuming that Lord Svarog personally helped raise her, it’s weird to think Dragan and Avlora have never met. My explanations are a) that it was more of a “Lord Svarog served as a benefactor and ran the orphanage Avlora was in” scenario, b) Dragan was raised somewhere away from Twinsgate, or c) there was a significant age gap between her and Dragan, and they weren’t raised at Twinsgate at the same time.

Anna: ~30 years (SO 30 years)

During one of her character stories, it’s said that she was adopted by Benedict after the destruction of the Jackes clan, which was said to be during the Saltiron War. She’s described as being swaddled up, so likely only a few months old at most. That’s about 30 years + how many years before the end of the war that you think the Jackes clan’s destruction took place, which I put towards 0-1, assuming it was towards the end.

Milo: (SO 31 years)

Sycras: (SO 32 years)

He’s married with two young kids, as shown in Roland’s ending.

Decimal: ~30+ years (SO 32 years/3 years)

Decimal was created as a prototype for the Hierophant, who was created sometime during the war by Lyla Viscraft after the last Hierophant died. This would have been sometime around Lady Orlaea’s escape, so whenever you’d place that, that’s how old Decimal is. However, given that Decimal doesn’t seem to have stayed with any of his few masters for very long, I headcanon that he was turned off for some significant amount of time during this period, giving him a physical age of 32 but a mental age more like 3.

Exharme: (SO 35 years)

Exharme is considered a young and upcoming minister, so it’s definitely possible he’s younger than even 35. For me, I think my 35 estimate is influenced pretty heavily by his English VA, who seems to voice him as older.

Avlora: ~30 years old (SO 38 years)

The most defining fact with Avlora is that she’s stated to have been orphaned during the Saltiron War, which should put her lower limit at around 30. But some other things to consider:

If you pick to negotiate with her when you recapture Whiteholm Castle, you get a side story in which she argues with Thalas and Erika and Thalas remarks that she’s an orphan who doesn’t even know her “true name.” It’s unclear what this means—it could imply that she was too young to speak at all at the time she was orphaned (which would mean someone else, perhaps Lord Svarog who took her in, named her Avlora) or it could just mean that she was old enough to know her first name, but not her family name. In any case, I’m assuming she was probably three or younger when she was orphaned.

In her character story, she also mentions that she “never knew her parents,” which further supports that she was pretty young at the time.

Knowing all that, I put her upper limit at something like 38 (30 years + the duration of the war + 3 years old), and her younger limit at around 26 (30 years - the duration of any potential peace talks + 0 years assuming she was a newborn). Like Anna, Avlora likely doesn’t know her own age, so that’s pretty flexible as well.

A fun fact about Avlora + Dragan (already wrote this under Dragan, but cross-referencing it here): during the exploration phase before the tourney, he talks as if he’s never met Avlora before, or at the very least doesn’t know her very well. However, during her character story, Avlora claims that Lord Svarog took her in when she was orphaned. If you’re assuming that Lord Svarog personally helped raise her, it’s weird to think Dragan and Avlora have never met. My explanations are a) that it was more of a “Lord Svarog served as a benefactor and ran the orphanage Avlora was in” scenario, b) Dragan was raised by his mother somewhere away from Twinsgate, or c) there was a significant age gap between her and Dragan, and they weren’t raised at Twinsgate at the same time.

And as a special note on this one, I know a ton of people ship Avlora/Cordelia, and I think there’s a valid argument to be made that the writers intended Avlora to be younger than she lore-wise has to be (in general the TS timeline is pretty inconsistent, so I’m not sure they were all on the same page haha). I personally like putting her on the older side of the cast and imagining her relationship with Cordelia as more of a familial/mentoring one, which is where my 38 comes from, but that’s probably not the popular fanon age for her haha. Given the way TS doesn’t give us a firm age for anyone but Roland, I think we’re all entitled to a little artistic license. If you want to imagine her as younger than 26, you could probably put together a justification for it, so go with whatever else floats your boat.

Gustadolph: ~35+ years at the least (SO 35 years)

Another weird one! The biggest two things we have for Gustadolph’s age are a) during a cutscene you get if you give up the Roselle, he says he remembers some stories that Lady Orlaea told him as a boy, and b) when he’s telling Avlora to go kill Landroi, he says, “[Landroi] had the pluck to fire at your master during the war. Do you think you can best him?” This could arguably be about Groma (who’s implied to be a mentor to Avlora) or Zigmunt or someone else, but from context it seems as if Gustadolph is speaking about himself. With those in mind, I give his age an approximate range of 35-45: at 35, we’re assuming that Gustadolph really was a child at the time he spoke with Lady Orlaea but that Falkes also shot at a child, OR at 45, we assume that “boy” referred to a teen, and that Gustadolph maybe fought in the war at some point.

I’ve gone towards the younger end of the spectrum because it makes me feel marginally less terrible when I think about Cordelia’s situation. If you want to lean into that, you could also use my Lady-Orlaea-stayed-through-the-peace-talks theory and make him more like 30 or something (although that does lend itself to Landroi shooting at an actual infant after the ceasefire, so you gotta pick your poison I guess!).

Ezana: (SO 36 years)

Medina: (SO 37 years)

Julio: (SO 38 years)

Silvio: (SO 37 years)

I don’t think we ever get any explicit confirmation that Silvio was in the war, so I’ve got a headcanon that the original Lord Telliore was Silvio’s father, and that Silvio is his air-headed son. If we assume that Silvio fought in the war, he would likely be around 50 years old.

Sycras: ~23+ years old (SO 30 years)

In Roland’s ending, it’s shown that Sycras is married with two young children, so assuming they’re at least 5 and that he was married at 18, I put his minimum age at 23, but you can assume his kids are older/younger, or that he was married older/younger as well.

Corentin: (SO 45 years)

Tenebris: (SO 45 years)

Patriatte: (SO 47 years)

Maxwell: ~35+ years (SO 47 years)

Maxwell is one I’ve definitely overthought, because despite him being Glenbrook’s finest warrior, I haven’t found a line yet that says he was involved in the Saltiron War. It seems like if he were in the Saltiron War, they would have talked about it a little bit more, the way they do with Regna and the three high houses. I’ve put his minimum age down as 35, assuming he was at least 20 when he began training Roland around an estimated age 5, and that it’s been 15 years since then, so 20 + 15. However, that might be a little young for him to go gray, assuming that isn’t his natural hair color—a quick Google search tells me that mid-40s is when men usually begin to go gray, and Maxwell’s braid seems to be fully that color. So you can easily imagine him as being older but that his involvement in the Saltiron War isn’t publicized for some reason (perhaps because he changed his identity/name when he donned his mask?).

Geela: ~50 years (SO 47 years)

Geela doesn’t look terribly old, but assuming that Frederica was really born at the end of the Saltiron War and is 30 at the beginning of the game, and assuming that Geela had spent some time studying in both Hyzante and Aesfrost, she was maybe 25-ish when she began teaching Frederica at a young age (I’m guessing 5, like with Maxwell and Roland), which would give them 25 years together as mentor/pupil, which brings us to 50 years old in total. But if you go with my peace-talks theory, and assume that Frederica is a little younger, you can play around with that number.

Travis: (SO 52 years)

He’s old enough to have a relatively old daughter.

Flanagan: (SO 54 years)

Erador: (SO 54 years)

Lionel: (SO 55 years)

Hossabarra: (SO 55 years)

She says her son Theo died in the war, and that he would “be a man grown now” during her character story. Assuming she was an adult when her son was born, and that her son was killed as a child, 55 seemed like a good number to me (30 years for the war + 20 for her age at Theo’s birth + 5 year old son).

Lyla: ~50+ years (SO 56 years)

Lyla’s the one who developed Decimal/the Hierophant automaton, which means she likely had to be at least 18 at the time of the last hierophant’s death, and it’s possible that she was already a minister (or at least a renowned scientist) if Idore trusted her with the task. That’s 30 years + maybe 2ish years for the time between the hierophant’s death and the end of the war + whatever age you think she developed Decimal at, which I put at 24. That feels like a young age for a minister, but taking into account that she’s Quahoug’s mother, who seems to be a child or young teen, it’s hard to make her much older than that, since that would put her at well over 40 at the time of his birth.

Regna: 51+ years (SO 55 years)

Regna doesn’t really look that old, but he was the one who worked with Zigmunt to instigate the Saltiron War. So assuming 30 years since the war + Regna being at least 18 when the war began + the war itself “raging on for many years” which I’m assuming is a minimum of 3, that gives us an overall minimum of 51. I headcanon the war as about 5 years long, and Regna as being 20 (Roland’s age) when the war began, so 30 + 20 + 5 gives us 55.

Symon: 51+ (SO 57 years)

A lot of the same reasoning as ^^ Regna, but I think of him as a little older, the way Serenoa seems a little older than Roland.

Landroi: 51+ (SO 67 years)

A lot of the same reasoning as ^^ Symon and Regna, but given his appearance and authority, I pin him as older.

Sorsley: (SO 60 years)

Benedict: (SO 60 years)

I imagine him to be older than Symon, but otherwise I’m just going off the white hair.

Kamsell: (SO 63 years)

Svarog: (SO 68 years)

Idore: (SO 74 years)

He was a prominent figure during the Saltiron War, and appears to be older than most of the cast. I assume he was about 44 at the end of the Saltiron War.

Groma: (SO 75 years)

It’s implied that she’s older than the majority of the cast, and I’m going with 75 assuming she was 45 at the end of the war, and that it’s been 30 years since then.

Archibald: (SO 81 years)

It’s implied that he’s older than the majority of the cast. I’m assuming he was 51 during the first Saltiron War, and that it’s been 30 years since then.

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I don't know what got into me in the 1980s, but it was culminant in a young me marching down a winding path to the Nicaraguan border, where I was greeted like an old friend. I was there to stand beside the Sandinista government. Even to fight on their behalf.

Those days are gone now, as the old song says. That Socialist dream, of shared milk and shared blood and toil, has long since gone sour. Or I should say was always toxic. And I ought to know. I gave my heart and soul to Nicaragua. Others gave lives. At that time it was that or murderous, Fascistic regimes. But the world has moved on, and I did too. I had to. The dream had become a nightmare. In Colombia the Farc guerillas, socialists or communists or whatever were kidnapping and murdering. Cuba was still Cuba, where mobiles and the internet were banned, Qaddafi's brand of socialism was fucking up Libya in Libya and Sadam Hussein's claimed Baathist Socialism was also too revealing. And Nicaragua just ripped itself apart. The Sandinistas splintered and fell, and Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega took over as dictator, installing his wife as vice président and turning into a fine example of Repugnancy, a natural and almost unavoiable step after Socialism, which took Russia a few years to perfect, then lead the world at, post 1991.

Under Putin the Ruscists have shown themselves to be uniquely brutal and barbarous. We thought we'd found reasons why Nazis chose to murder innocent victims in World War II. We understand how Europeans picked Africa and Latin America apart, and why, but among a backdrop of recent wars in Syria and Yemen we discover a new lease of life in Repugnancy, Ruscist style.

What is the reason for this extreme brutality? Is it new? Firstly I think there are reasons. Let me say that I was very strongly against the intervention in Iraq, and not in favour of the Qaddafi change in regime afterwards, either. Both of those wars make NATO's inactivity facing the extreme nature of the Ruscist dictatorship of Putin all the more unforgivable. And it is unforgivable.

If Scholz and Macron are the spearheads, others stand just behind in their shadow. The almost disgraceful smattering of military aid, often non-lethal, from Europe would be embarassing in itself, but the likes of Macron and Scholz are not made of the finer stuff, and the distasteful the embarassment comes from their incomprehensible assertions that they, and only they know what Ukraine needs as far as armaments go, or more often do not need. It is no wonder nobody listens to Kaja Kallas, PM of Estonia, a state Macron openly derided as somewhere far to the East, is easily head and shoulders anove the rest of the leaders of NATO, in terms of knowledge and arms advocacy.

But surely NATO'S structure, as a military organisation, is ready to listen to military solutions? No, because the weak schoolmaster that is Jens Stoltenberg was pushed in by Merkel exactly for that: a schoolmaster will not trouble Putin. And Stoltenberg has gone to great pains to suggest arms are continually needed in Ukraine in irder to be remembered as loyal to the only right side in this war, but what he has not done is glaring to any puzzled observer.

However, NATO's inability to provide safe, or no fly zones or indeed ensure Ukraine is able to shows a blundering naivity. Combining this with a series of expensive adverts glorying the organisation in cheerful exposé as "defenders of Europe" while Ukraine next door is hammered by bombs is of questionable effciency to say the least, and shows an organisation out of step with the wishes of the majority of the European populace.

Because Putin is a thug, where he sees weakness he goes in for overkill. This in the long term is his downfall. You don't liberate a country by terrorising it and commiting war crimes, no matter how powerful you think you are, and if this war has shown weakness and indecision in NATO, it also has revealed much about Russian culture: not much has changed since the Mongols swept through, or mass-murdered their way through, indeed, one wonders how many of their hordian or hordic genes have rippled through the Ruscist population, probably a lot, and if one believes in epigenetics and ghost dna, then even more.

One cannit slip into brunt racism to explain this war, however, and the whole ediface of what the Ruscist state is, was, has become needs identifying. Putin's decisión to personally alocate presidents of republics and governers of oblasts in the huge federation was the first step in many that led him to decide he wanted Ukraine, but his taming of Belarus through its serially incompetent and brutal dictator gave him signals that did not help. But as an empire Russia has always been spoiling fir this fight. It would be with Poland as well, if it was not for the EU, and snarls at the Baltic States continually. Famously it was beaten back by Finland, but it needs to be severely beaten back now. Kazakhstan, in particular needs to join Ukraine and indeed Mongolia in democratic quest. Democracy us nit a purely European concept: we find it from Japan and Taiwan to Kenya, Botswana, Guatemala and Paraguay. It works, but it demands International solidarity, and strength.

The Ruscist empire ought to be dismantled. The task is complex. But the first step is a decentralisation of power. Locally elected leaders, good or bad, will at the very least develop local languages and culture, ensuring a more balance state inside thw Ruscist empire as well as out, if it is not too late.

If it is, the Ruscists will repeat what they have doing for hundreds of years, every hundred years or so.

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